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Re: [perl #118511] Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated - make a hard error

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Elizabeth Mattijsen
Date:
June 26, 2013 17:17
Subject:
Re: [perl #118511] Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated - make a hard error
Message ID:
1E38F3ED-F1A6-401C-9889-F4FB323FD711@dijkmat.nl
On Jun 26, 2013, at 7:03 PM, Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org> wrote:
> On 06/26/2013 12:44 PM, demerphq wrote:
>> On 17 June 2013 15:33, Father Chrysostomos via RT
>> <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon Jun 17 04:15:00 2013, eda@waniasset.com wrote:
>>>> This is a bug report for perl from eda@waniasset.com,
>>>> generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.16.3.
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> [Please describe your issue here]
>>>> 
>>>> For a long time Perl has issued a warning
>>>> 
>>>>     Use of bare << to mean <<"" is deprecated
>>>> 
>>>> This has been deprecated for a very long time and it could now
>>>> be made a syntax error.
>>> 
>>> I would like to see that *un*deprecated.  I see no reason why that
>>> syntax should cause any problems.  It doesn’t make anything less
>>> ambiguous to remove it.  (On top of that, it looks nice!)
>> 
>> FWIW I vote against this proposal. It should be an error.
> 
> I'm with Yves. Also FWIW.

Oddly enough, I'm with Yves on this one too  :-)



Liz
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